Hosea 8
1 Tiuplah sangkakala! Serangan laksana rajawali atas rumah TUHAN! Oleh karena mereka telah melangkahi perjanjian-Ku dan telah mendurhaka terhadap pengajaran-Ku.
[Yahweh said to me], “Blow [MTY] your trumpet [to warn the people]! My people have rejected the agreement that I made with them, and they have rebelled against [obeying] my laws. Therefore, [their enemies] are swooping down on my people’s country like [SIM] an eagle.
2 Kepada-Ku mereka berseru-seru: "Ya Allahku, kami, Israel mengenal Engkau!"
My Israeli people cry out to me, ‘Our God, we know that you are our God!’
3 Israel telah menolak yang baik--biarlah musuh mengejar dia!
But because the Israeli people have rejected what is good, their enemies will pursue them.
4 Mereka telah mengangkat raja, tetapi tanpa persetujuan-Ku; mereka mengangkat pemuka, tetapi dengan tidak setahu-Ku. Dari emas dan peraknya mereka membuat berhala-berhala bagi dirinya sendiri, sehingga mereka dilenyapkan.
The Israel people appointed [their last three] kings, but they did not ask me if I agreed to [what they were doing]. They chose their own leaders without asking if I would approve of them. They used their own silver and gold to make for themselves idols, and doing that led them to be destroyed.
5 Aku menolak anak lembumu, hai Samaria; murka-Ku menyala terhadap mereka! Sampai berapa lama tidak dapat disucikan,
You people of Samaria, throw away your [idol that resembles a] calf! I am extremely angry with you people! How long [RHQ] will you [do things that cause] you to be unacceptable to me?
6 orang-orang Israel itu? Itu dibuat oleh tukang, dan itu bukan Allah! Sungguh, akan menjadi serpih anak lembu Samaria itu!
[Someone in] Israel made that idol for you; [but I am] God and it is not. So that idol of a calf in Samaria must be smashed to pieces.
7 Sebab mereka menabur angin, maka mereka akan menuai puting beliung; gandum yang belum menguning tidak ada pada mereka; tumbuh-tumbuhan itu tidak menghasilkan tepung; dan jika memberi hasil, maka orang-orang lain menelannya.
[The foolish thing that the people of Israel have done is like] [MET] trying to plant wind; but what they harvest will be like [MET] a whirlwind. So the grain that they planted will have no heads [on the stalks], and as a result [there will be no grain] from which to make flour. And if it did produce good grain, foreigners would [come and] steal it.
8 Israel sudah ditelan; sekarang mereka itu ada di antara bangsa-bangsa seperti barang yang tidak disukai orang.
[The people of] Israel will be defeated [MET] [by their enemies]; they will be [scattered] among other nations and become worthless.
9 Sebab mereka telah pergi ke Asyur, bagaikan keledai hutan yang memencilkan diri; Efraim telah membagi-bagi hadiah cinta.
Like [MET] donkeys that are looking for mates, they have requested [help] from Assyria; they paid money to [the leaders of Assyria] in order to [persuade those leaders to] protect them.
10 Sekalipun mereka membagi-bagi hadiah itu di antara bangsa-bangsa, sekarang ini Aku akan mengumpulkan mereka, dan sebentar lagi mereka akan berhenti mengurapi raja dan para pemuka.
But although they have agreed to pay money each year to [the leaders of] those countries, I will soon gather them together [to punish them]. The great King [of Assyria] will cause them to suffer greatly.
11 Sungguh, Efraim telah memperbanyak mezbah; mezbah-mezbah itu menjadikan mereka berdosa.
Although [the people of] Israel built many altars to present offerings [to their idols] to take away [their guilt for] sinning, those altars have become places where they commit [more] sins.
12 Sekalipun Kutuliskan baginya banyak pengajaran-Ku, itu akan dianggap mereka sebagai sesuatu yang asing.
I wrote many laws for them, but they disregarded them, saying that [they did not have to obey them because] they were different from laws that they had known previously.
13 Mereka mencintai korban sembelihan; mereka mempersembahkan daging dan memakannya; tetapi TUHAN tidak berkenan kepada mereka. Sekarang Ia akan mengingat kesalahan mereka dan akan menghukum dosa mereka; mereka harus kembali ke Mesir!
They offer sacrifices to me, and they eat [some of] the meat of those sacrifices, [which is what I permitted them to do]. But I, Yahweh, am not pleased with those sacrifices. I remember the evil things that they have done, and I will punish them for the sins that they have committed: I will force them to [go to other countries] [and become slaves like they were] [MET] in Egypt.
14 Israel telah melupakan Pembuatnya dan telah mendirikan istana-istana; Yehuda telah memperbanyak kota-kota yang berkubu; tetapi Aku akan melepas api ke dalam kota-kota mereka, sehingga puri mereka dimakan habis.
[The people of] Israel have abandoned/forgotten me, the one who created their [nation]; they have built palaces, and [the people of] Judah have built walls around many towns. But I will send a fire that will destroy all their cities and their fortresses.”
